3.30 - Immigration, Culture, Identity Review

THE CAPITAL OF IRISH AMERICA Irish began moving to Boston before the American Revolution. Some came for economic opportunities. Thousands of others were deported by the British to populate the colonies. Boston has Irish held the colonies at first St. Patrick had a Day celebration in 1737. Irish. Fleeing the Great Hunger, about 75,000 desperate refugees paid about $15 to board leaky “coffin ships” that could take a month to cross the Atlantic. So many people died on the journey, the ocean was called The Bowl of Tears. Yet poor, uneducated, and starving immigrants kept coming. In 1850, one-third of Boston’s population was Irish, and local citizens feared their town, called the Dublin of America, would become the “poor house of the world.” Mobs

The Capital of Irish America It talks about the struggles the Irish went through to find a new location to escape poverty. The Irish went to Boston and were shown discrimination because of their poverty and struggle. Over time Irish got opportunities like being the mayor of Boston and their culture is what shaped Boston.

The capital of Irish America is about how the Irish people moved from their country to live a better life. they had struggles with the Americans when they first came. But it all worked out in the end and got the respect they deserve from America

The article basically talks about how Boston was the first place that immigrants went too. Also how the american revolution came up with the name St. Patrick day. And that the immigrants traveled to Boston and how they had consequences.

I read about the Capital of Irish America, how many Irish climbed the step to Immigration. Also how the Boston Irish held the colony's first St.Patrick's day. But how Irish people struggle either because of discrimination, economy, jobs or the dangerous conditions.

The Rush of Immigrants part of religious western European people coming to America to live better lifestyles. People living poorer lifestyles in other countries and seeking better-paying jobs and better lifestyles. they wanted to always keep their traditions when they migrate to America and to keep their traditions going they teach their kids.

The Rush of Immigrants In the passage it talks about how the Old migration up until the mid 1800s brought thousands of Irish and German people to the new world. They came into the new world for better jobs, opportunities, and freedom. Not all Americans welcomed new immigrants in 1924 they didn't allow millions of immigrants based on ethnicity.

The article talks about the history of a third of American ancestors entering the United States as immigrants in a New York landfill. Most of these people were looking for better lives from their home countries but had to go through numerous obstacles to enter the US. As a whole, many immigrants, some Chinese had large problems to face along with legal bans and deniance.

The Rush of Immigrants the article talks about how new immigrants were coming to the united states because the wages they could earn and the food they could eat surpassed their former realities.

The Rush of Immigrants This article was about many things such as how the immigrants came and what the Americans thought and how they felt about that. They also talked about immigration and it's background like where they were coming from and some of what they went through.

America's Shifting Views on Immigration 2) Many immigrants were migrating from their home countries to Ellis Island in New York. The United States over time started changing its laws on immigration and who were allowed to enter the U.S. By the 20th century, discussions on perfecting the immigration laws continue today but policies have shifted from exclusionary to inclusionary

This article talked about how Jews and slaves were fleeing for a better opportunities. They had to go through this process that examined their health and were asked 29 questions known as the muster(SOme passed and some didnt). As Time went on laws and acts took place that limited certain groups from entering the U.S such as "The naturalization act 1790, The Emergency quota act". On the contrary, there were laws that helped immigrants such as the 1948 enactment of the Displaced person act, the Nationality act.

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The text goes over the Ellis island,, which is a location meant to serve as a point of entry for immigrants coming to america. The U.S had changed certain immigration policies over time from exclusionary to including. The efforts made had allowed a lot more freedom towards those who had been in other countries prior to the U.S

The passage talks about the history of immigration, the passage talks about all the different races of people that were coming to escape from their homes like Jews, Slavs, and Italians from 1892 to 1954 and they would go through Ellis Island as a point of immigration over those years. Of course, there were more people that came to the U.S. as time went on but the article talks about the requirements that people needed to have like money they didn't want anybody who couldn't support themselves while looking for a job and the health examination that started as soon as they would see the immigrants. But overall, laws changed, rules changed, and acts changed, as time went on and as immigrants kept coming.

America's Shifting Views on Immigration The summary of the passage is the origin of the immigrants and what the immigrants had to go through to become US citizens. How Ellis Island was a place where our ancestors took their first step there and how prostitutes and homosexuals weren't allowed to come to the US. And then later on in the passage, all immigrants had the right to come to the US.